Sanskrit Recension of Persian Astronomy: The computation of true declination in Nityānanda's Sarvasiddhāntaraja
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Sanskrit Recension of Persian Astronomy : The computation of true declination in Nityānanda's Sarvasiddhāntaraja. / Misra, Anuj.
I: History of Science in South Asia, Bind 10, 2022, s. 68-168.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Sanskrit Recension of Persian Astronomy
T2 - The computation of true declination in Nityānanda's Sarvasiddhāntaraja
AU - Misra, Anuj
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - In the history of exchanges between Islamicate and Sanskrit astral sciences, Nityānanda's Siddhāntasindhu (c. early 1630s), composed at the court of the Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān (r. 1628–58), is among the earliest examples of a Persian astronomical text translated into Sanskrit. In a recent publication, Misra (2021) describes the sociohistorical context in which Nityānanda translated Mullā Farīd's Zīj-i Shāh Jahānī (c. 1629/30) into Sanskrit, and among other things, provides parallel comparative editions (accompanied by English translations) of the Persian and Sanskrit text describing the computation of true declination of a celestial object. While Misra's paper focuses on the linguistic aspects of the translation process, the present paper studies the mathematics of the three methods of computing the true declination vis-à-vis Nityānanda's recension of his Sanskrit translations from his germinal Siddhāntasindhu to his chef d'œuvre the Sarvasiddhāntarāja (1638). The paper begins by discussing the transformation of the Sanskrit text from the Siddhāntasindhu Part II.6 to the spaṣṭakrāntyādhikāra `topic on true declination' in the gaṇitādhyāya `chapter on computations' (henceforth identified as I.spa·krā) of his Sarvasiddhāntarāja. The metrical verses of Sarvasiddhāntarāja I.spa·krā are edited and translated into English for the very first time. A large part of this paper focuses on the technical (mathematical) analysis of the three methods of true declination, and includes detailed explanatory and historical notes. The paper also includes several technical appendices and an indexed glossary of technical terms.
AB - In the history of exchanges between Islamicate and Sanskrit astral sciences, Nityānanda's Siddhāntasindhu (c. early 1630s), composed at the court of the Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān (r. 1628–58), is among the earliest examples of a Persian astronomical text translated into Sanskrit. In a recent publication, Misra (2021) describes the sociohistorical context in which Nityānanda translated Mullā Farīd's Zīj-i Shāh Jahānī (c. 1629/30) into Sanskrit, and among other things, provides parallel comparative editions (accompanied by English translations) of the Persian and Sanskrit text describing the computation of true declination of a celestial object. While Misra's paper focuses on the linguistic aspects of the translation process, the present paper studies the mathematics of the three methods of computing the true declination vis-à-vis Nityānanda's recension of his Sanskrit translations from his germinal Siddhāntasindhu to his chef d'œuvre the Sarvasiddhāntarāja (1638). The paper begins by discussing the transformation of the Sanskrit text from the Siddhāntasindhu Part II.6 to the spaṣṭakrāntyādhikāra `topic on true declination' in the gaṇitādhyāya `chapter on computations' (henceforth identified as I.spa·krā) of his Sarvasiddhāntarāja. The metrical verses of Sarvasiddhāntarāja I.spa·krā are edited and translated into English for the very first time. A large part of this paper focuses on the technical (mathematical) analysis of the three methods of true declination, and includes detailed explanatory and historical notes. The paper also includes several technical appendices and an indexed glossary of technical terms.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Sanskrit astral sciences
KW - Persian astronomy
KW - true declination computation
KW - Science in Mughal India
KW - gaṇita jyotiṣa
KW - Nityānanda
KW - Mullā Farīd
KW - Sarvasiddhāntarāja
KW - Siddhāntasindhu
KW - Zīj-i Shāh Jahānī
KW - Zīj-i Ulugh Beg
U2 - 10.18732/hssa75
DO - 10.18732/hssa75
M3 - Journal article
VL - 10
SP - 68
EP - 168
JO - History of Science in South Asia
JF - History of Science in South Asia
SN - 2369-775X
ER -
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